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When you clone an issue in Jira Cloud

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using Epic Clone, a dialog will

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pop up allowing you to configure the cloned issue and its child issues.

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This guide highlights the location of Epic Clone within a Jira issue. Let's

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consider cloning this issue

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using Epic Clone:

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It

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includes 3 child issues and 2 linked

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Dialog for team-managed projects:

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Dialog for company-managed projects (Epic):

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Target Project: Select the target project for your clone. You will only see projects in the select list you have access to and where you have create permission.

Summary: Set the summary for the cloned issue. The summary of the source issue is displayed by default.

Epic Name: Epics in company-managed projects have the epic name field. If you clone an epic from a company-managed project, you can set the epic name field for the cloned epic. The epic name of the source epic is displayed by default in this case.

Assignee: Select the assignee for the cloned issue.

Labels: Existing labels of the source issue will be displayed by default. You can add additional custom labels in this field. Separate several labels with spaces. The labels inserted in the field will be added to all created issues.

Info

This list contains possibilities for the current app version. We plan to extend it so it will be possible in future version to also set other fields and issue attributes during cloning. Visit this page from time to time to see what’s new.

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If you click on next and everything is fine with the issue type, you will get to the second page where you can configure which child or linked issues you want to clone with the source issue.

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Child

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Choose for child issues which ones to clone together with the parent. Issue type, key and summary are displayed in the checkbox list.

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Issue 2 has 3 sub-tasks

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There will only be those issues displayed and are selectable which have an issue type available in the target project. If you miss some of them from the source issue, their issue type is not available in the target project you have chosen on the screen before.

Linked Issues

If the source issue has other issues linked to it, they will be displayed in a checkbox list on the right side of the dialog. On top, you can choose from three different clone link options.

Clone Link Options: 

  • Clone links only: This means that the target issue will be linked to the same issues than the source issue

  • Clone linked issues: Linked issues to source issue will be copied as well and linked to the target issue

  • Don’t clone links: Nothing happens with links. They won’t be considered at all for cloning

Below the options you find the checkbox list of linked issues. Like for child issues only those links will be considered which are checked in the list.

If you have finished your settings, click on submit to start the cloning. After successful completion a message dialog appears which contains a link to the created parent issue.

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Please note that due to current limitations you might get an error message when cloning large issues (e.g. with more than 20 child issues). This message comes up as the cloning dialog is running into a timeout on time consuming copy operations. However, despite this message the cloning will be completed in background and thus work also for large issues.

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. By clicking on the three dots → Clone with child issues, you can open the clone configuration dialog.

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Please proceed on this page where it is explained what you can do when cloning an issue with Epic Clone.